Lost Rain

Outrun - Chapter 254

I immediately activated my Perks and slunk away from the altar. For the moment, there were no eyes on me. I didn’t even feel Mother’s all-seeing gaze, for once. Whatever Corvin did to her, She Who Grows and all her plants weren’t home. I’d be a fool not to capitalize and attempt an escape...

Outrun - Chapter 253

Mother stared at me, her green eyes crinkling. She watched me eat-

”Caw!” A cry came from the distance. For a moment, the whole world seemed the shatter into shards. Everything splintered like I was looking at stained glass.

Had- had her eyes always been green? My head pounded fie...

Chapter 252 rewrite?

I got a message about how the current setup feels very forced for 251/252. I’m feeling a bit the same, though it’s partially intentional to get through the rest of the arc a bit quicker. This poll is to figure out how y’all feel about it, and if I should change anything.

1. If I shou...

Outrun - Chapter 252

I staggered into the hollow section of Mother’s massive tree. They were careful not to push me too much though. The entire way here, they kept their eyes on me. No chance of escape. Not that I could given the situation. With a dozen of the ents, of which I could maybe fight off one when fully g...

Outrun - Chapter 251

I staggered down another street, dodging a lunge thanks to Insight’s warning. I fired back toward my attacker with my pistol, though even that was running out of ammo.

The hunters behind me didn’t all swarm in like they had before. Instead of the murderous intent they showed earlier, th...

Outrun - Chapter 250

I moved through the building and dropped back down to street level, avoiding the racket behind me. It was either more of Shen Kang’s people coming to investigate, or more of the infested on the prowl. Neither one of them would be good to run into face-to-face, especially not given my current si...

Outrun - Chapter 249

A few minutes passed as the sniper occasionally took potshots at us. For the most part, Brunhilde and I just sat behind our cover, patiently waiting. She tried a few times to spark up a conversation, but now really wasn’t the time.

Eventually, the sniper shots toward us cut off entirely. ...

Outrun - Chapter 248

I stared at the spider tank as I moved along the wall, keeping to the shadows. My chances of killing such a beast of a vehicle were low. My grenade launcher was my best bet, but there was no telling if it’d even be able to get through the spider tank’s armor. I wasn't exactly optimized for am...

Siderun - Jack Misor

An: This was supposed to come out over the weekend, but I decided to completely rewrite it and change the tone. This is a side story following Jack Misor, a brand-new, perfectly normal character with absolutely no relation to Inquisitor Ligh.

I talked about this with Gardor, one o...

Outrun - Chapter 247

I locked the door behind me and moved Dev into a place I’d have a bit more room to work. He was in bad shape. Deep cuts bled profusely from the gaps in his armor. Already, there was a pool of the stuff beneath him. How did he manage to drag himself all the way here from where he fell?

Wor...

Outrun - Chapter 246

I stared down past Dev’s trembling body as we tightly held onto each other. A loud crash sent a massive dust plume into the air as the tower collapsed, destroying a clear path through the city. We were just above the falling building as it impacted the ground with enough force to cause a locali...

Outrun - Chapter 245

I stared at the Valkyrie across from me, waiting for her to speak. I wasn’t sure what she knew, so I didn’t want to reveal anything by speaking carelessly. The Valkyrie likewise stayed silent, looking off the balcony towards the distant rain-clad city. 

If I had a camera, this woul...

Outrun - Chapter 244

Outrun - Chapter 243

After setting up the last of the bombs, we moved to the rendezvous point. It was closer to the frontline we’d be holding. And then we waited. For three days, we just sat around waiting. Part of the reason we were waiting was for the demolition crews to come back. Some routes took longer, and li...

Outrun - Chapter 242

Our entry into the Underground was pretty far into the AEZ. It was one of the many entrances I marked when handing over my knowledge to the Blue Crusade. It’d been way less stressful getting out here than I thought it would be. Instead of coming out on foot like we had while patrolling, the Cru...

Outrun - Chapter 241

The conversation with the scouts, planning routes, and figuring out the plan going forward was a long one. Mainly, they picked my brain constantly for alternative routes and pathing. It got to the point that I decided to just draw out the entire section of the Underground as I remembered it.

Outrun - Chapter 240

Our patrol ended a few hours later. We ran into several other plant monsters, but it was otherwise quite tame. The rougher parts were when we ran into other people. Although we were all on the same side, there was a certain tension when running into groups of other affiliations. This time, it was...

Outrun - Chapter 239

The bar Inquisitor Ligh wanted to visit wasn’t that far off our patrol route: Ocean Breeze. It was a dingy hole in the floor. Literally. Ocean Breeze was one of those basement-type bars that only those who know about it go to. Like what I wanted my Speakeasy to be one day.

No clue ho...

Outrun - Chapter 238

I stared out at the malevolent tree from the top of an abandoned apartment building near the Blue Crusade’s temporary base. It’d been an hour since we first arrived, and I could feel my eyes drooping as I looked out across the massive, fifty-square-block abandoned section of the city.  2025-04-16 22:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Outrun - Chapter 237

A meeting was called shortly after, with most if not all of the present Crusaders grouping up. The conversation was brief and ended before it could really even start. We were in a time crunch, and communications to the outside were still limited by Circle Netrunners. High Lord Lykos made the fina...

Outrun - Chapter 236

With Joshua supplying me parts, I quickly managed to get one of the consoles up and running. A bit more effort after that, and I finally sent the command to raise the blast shields that covered the windows looking into the cargo hold.

The metal shields groaned and creaked as they lifted, ab...

Outrun - Chapter 235

The discussion lasted a while, though eventually we were sent off to go rest while we could. The higher-ups were planning an all out assault—surprise—on the ritual circle. It was suspected to also house the illusion and spatial distortion magics.

I went off to see one of the medics. The...

Outrun - Chapter 234

I felt the ice-cold of Insight as dozens of phantasmal bullets impacted all over my body. I used Burst Step once more to force my way through the door as fast as possible, throwing myself to the side. My breath left in a sharp gasp as the injury from the shield slam caught with the movement.

Outrun - Chapter 233

After the fire burned itself out, we resumed our journey to the wolf sprite by cutting through the halls. We ran into a few other opponents, though nothing that our combined firepower couldn’t easily handle. Mainly, the combined firepower of Tyrone and Autumn. I kinda just followed behind and u...

Outrun - Chapter 232

I followed behind the Knights as we headed through one of the bulkheads. Just to be safe, we all held onto each other to ensure we ended up in the same place. The internal dock was quite far from the wolf sprite, so the hope was to get somewhere closer using the spatial distortion.

We left ...

Outrun - Chapter 231

I left the wolf behind, headed for the nearest bulkhead, and passed under it. Immediately, as I entered a new space, my nose was assaulted with the heavy scent of spilled blood and scattered viscera.

I moved to the closest shadow, sticking low as Illusive hid my form in the shadows. My brai...

Outrun - Chapter 230

I stared at the plant monster in confusion. Under Aetherial Perception’s enhanced sight, it didn’t look anything like the other plant monsters I’d seen so far. Under the twisting branches and brambles of the beast, I expected to see the twisted corruption of Mother.

Instead the creatu...

Outrun - Chapter 229

Unlike the Drop Chutes, there was no gentle bleed of momentum before hitting the ground. I plummeted, slamming into the bottom of the shaft with an insane amount of force. Only- the force scattered just as I hit, magically stolen away so it wouldn’t deal any damage.

It was… alright, I g...

Outrun - Chapter 228

Flying over the city from a flyer was always something else. It was an experience I’d only been through a few times in my life, and this time was truly special compared to those other times.

I looked away from the window, glancing around the cabin full of Crusaders. There was a certain…...

Cover Art

I started making a bunch of Cover Art for various books again, and felt like making yet another one for Outrun. I think this is the fourth. I don’t know if I’m actually going to change stuff up like with the last two, buy what do y’all think?